He was safely behind the Great Wall of NYT for some time, so I've been able to forget about him, But Real Clear Politics went and linked him. I'm not saying you couldn't drown in a pool of his analysis--but you'd have to be face down and unconscious. And then you might not survive.
Freidman thinks that catering to foreign fools who believe tourists to America end up in Gitmo is job one for the next president, and that the proper metric for our war is how many people visit us on vacation. Unmentioned is if he thinks a metric should be how many Moslems attend our flight schools and strip bars.
The bottom line is he's tired of 9/11. 9/11 is over, he writes.
Does Friedman dress himself in the morning? Does he trim that moustache without drawing blood?
We can’t afford to keep being this stupid! We have got to get our groove back. We need a president who will unite us around a common purpose, not a common enemy. Al Qaeda is about 9/11. We are about 9/12, we are about the Fourth of July — which is why I hope that anyone who runs on the 9/11 platform gets trounced.
We need to get our "groove" back, he writes. In a just world, any rebuttal of Friedman would stop there. No further words would be necessary.
But this is not a just world.
Yes, al Qaeda is about 9/11. Lots more of them. 9/11s with chemicals, or nukes, or dirty bombs, or just more hijacked planes. You bet the enemy is about 9/11. They rejoice in their success six years ago and dream of more--and damn their luck that they've not had more since then.
And fools like Friedman are tired of fighting al Qaeda. Too effing bad for him. Our enemies aren't tired yet.
Thomas Friedman is a successful columnist and writer. You bet we can afford to be this stupid. Or at least some us can afford to be this stupid. It hasn't hurt Friedman's bank account, that's for sure.
Sheer rock-pounding stupidity. I'm simply stunned.
How did I go on without Times Select for so long?
